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Gretchen

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About Me

"I adore anything to do with the arts" as Juliette Hume said in the film Heavenly Creatures. I have to agree with her.Anyway, I'm a kick ass gal and radical feminist who believes in social justice, equality for women and keeping that inner child alive!I host a feminist radio show so listen up on Thursdays 12-3 pm on WUSC 90.5 fm. Visit www.wusc.sc.edu and go to online streamingSee my interest below as I think films, books, heroes etc say more about me than I can write here.http://www.pimp-my-profile.com/generators/preview.php?m ode=myspace&layout_id=90777#STOP! Online Exploitation of Children and teenagers

My Interests

Loved ones like my boyfriend, my friends and family. Radical feminism, building women friendly communities for activism, music, film and literature. Film history, women's history, Literature, diverse music, leftist politics, Social Justice, conserving the planet (though i suck at it) Fair Trade, exotic foods, being in the water, Sexuality, cats, my niece, Kate Winslet, The Nickelodeon Theatre in Columbia, SC, 90.5 WUSC FM Columbia especially my show: Gloria: The Feminist Show.

I'd like to meet:

Robin Morgan, Werner Herzog, Kate Winslet, Howard Zinn, Catherine Mackinnon, Gail Dines, Gael Garcia Bernal.Activists, artists, feminists, and you!

Music:

I host a feminist radio show so this is hard. Please listen to it! I'm on this summer Thursday 12 -3 pm listen online www.wusc.sc.edu then go to webstreaming! Tori Amos, Krautrock like Can, Neu,Faust, 7o's punk like The Slits, Liliput, Delta 5, The Clash, Rubella Ballet, Poison Girls and x-ray spex. No Wave music like Lydia Lunch, Bush Tetras, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, righteous babes like Ani Difranco. Siouxie and the Banchees, Le Tigre, Bjork, The Cure, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, riot grrl music like Bikini kill, Babes in Toyland, hole, Sleater-Kinney, female blues like Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Magnetic fields and many other great indie bands, shoegazer music like My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground (Nico!!!), Yoko Ono, Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead, Nirvana, Laurie Anderson, Arcade Fire, The Plasmatics, Erykah Badu,Pearl Jam, Joan Jett, Electrelane, M.I.A, Karen Finely (spoken word), Beethoven, neko case, le tigre, fiona apple, baby guts and much more.

Movies:

I was a film major so this is hard. Film is more of a curiousity to me. There is no telling what facet I may become interested in. for example, in the past I've had sudden interests in silent films (especially from Germany), films by and about women, film noir, Third Cinema, literary adaptations, the German New Wave, Chinese films in the 80's- to early 90's, the representation of class, gender and social issues etc. All that film studies training. So this should represent: I could watch these lots: Sunset Boulevard, The Piano, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Rate it X (awesome documentary about our raunch/porn culture and how it effects women made back in the 80's) Heavenly Creatures, Beyond Beats and Rhymes (documentary), Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, Head On, Waiting for Guffman, Taxi Driver, Terms of Endearment, All About Eve, Nosferatu (silent), Faust (silent), Bette Davis films like The Petrified Forest (screen divas in general), Amores Perros, Roger and Me, Woody Allen films, Holy Smoke, Raise The Red Lantern, Beyond Silence, The Corndog Man, Wuthering Heights (1939),Anne of Green Gables, The Battle of Algiers, Clue, Harold and Maude, The Sound of Music, Moulin Rouge, Iron Jawed Angels, Persona, Battleship Potempkin, Moolade, An Angel at my Table, The Mother, Rosenstrause, Z, Born into Brothels, 9 to 5, Say Anything, My Own Private Idaho, Attack of the 50 Ft Woman (both versions), Broke Back Mountian, The Accused, Sense and Sensibility, Water, All That Heaven Allows, Marie Antionette, Far From Heaven, Vertigo, Maya Deren shorts, Monster, Sister My Sister, lots and lots of other great stuff.

Television:

Roseanne!!!!!!!! Masterpiece Theatre, BBC and A&E literary adaptions, especially Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, V (the mini series), Independent Lens on ETV, Turner Classic Movies, Judge Hatchett (lol!), ROSEANNE!!!!!!!!!!

Books:

I was an English Minor so again - so hard. What pops in mind is Wuthering Height by Emily Bronte, The Bell Jar by Syliva Plath, Going too Far: Chronicles of a Radical Feminist by Robin Morgan (anything by her), The Yellow Wallpaper and other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, A Room of One's Own by Virgina Wolfe, feminism is for everyone by bell hooks, female chauvinsts pigs by ariel levy, the bluest eye by toni morrison, Life and Death by Andrea Dworkin, pride and prejudge by jane austen, Transforming a Rape Culture, Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, Robin Paige's Victorian Mystery Series, poetry of Anne Sexton, because it is bitter and because it is my heart by joyce carol oates, reading lolita in tehran by Azar Nafisi, Phantom by Susan Kay, Mama Day by gloria naylor, A people's history of the united states by howard zinn, the beauty myth by naomi wolfe, Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Sexuality by Catherine Mackinnon (essay), jane eyre by charlotte bronte, the woman warrior by maxine hong kingston, Black Feminism and Blues Legacy by Angela Davis, The Unholy Trinity: The IMF,WTO,and World Bank by Richard Peet, Devil's Dream by Lee Smith, Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy, The Handmaids Tale by Margret Atwood, Sister Hood is Global (edited by Robin Morgan), A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo, No Exit and other plays by Sartre, Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger, Waiting for Godot, Medea by Euripides, Hags, Sirens and other Bad Girls of Fantasy edited by Denise Little, Angry Women in Rock edited by Andrea Juno

Heroes:

Robin Morgan, Sophie Scholl, Ashundati Roy, Angela Davis, Alice Paul, Sojourner Truth, audre lorde, The Bronte Sisters, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Howard Zinn, Thomas Clarkson and other abolitionists, Charles Darwins's supporters of the theory of evolution and not intelligent design, The Grimke Sisters, The Gorilla Girls, Frida Kahlo, Shirely Chisholm, Martin Luther King Jr, Emma Goldman, Jordan Jennings, Tootsie Holland, Gail Dines, Catherine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin.

My Blog

Birthday Roundup

Well, my birthday is now over. Thanks to my friends and myspace friends who sent me birthday greetings. How many people know the time you were born? I asked my dad and he was unsure of the time i was ...
Posted by Gretchen on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:36:00 PST

no mountain climbing for me

My much anticipated and much planned vacation in the mountains has been canceled as Lee has decided he needs to work the 8 hours he would miss if he went. This sucks mostly on a money basis (gas ...
Posted by Gretchen on Tue, 27 May 2008 05:12:00 PST

still having pain

Well, bad news about my pain thus far. I upped the medicine that is suppose to be helping me to its theraputic dose and still no effect. As a matter of fact, last night I woke up in such physical pain...
Posted by Gretchen on Sun, 25 May 2008 09:18:00 PST

Wuthering Heights and Southern Christian Goverments

Part One: I have been reading The Bronte Sisters: A Life in Letters while once again putting myself in the head of the sisters and stories. It's a great book of letters except for the ever elusive Emi...
Posted by Gretchen on Tue, 13 May 2008 03:08:00 PST

Funny or annoying?

http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c3921691a4b301 16924a730f0085   I vote Funny but my boyfriend differs.............
Posted by Gretchen on Thu, 08 May 2008 07:08:00 PST

You tube videos i love..........

you tube stuff i watch lots! thought i'd put up a summary and so you can watch and i can too. feminism/women i love: Andrea Dworkin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrS1Skjehw4 pro choice rally http://w...
Posted by Gretchen on Fri, 02 May 2008 09:46:00 PST

Recommended books discussed on GLORIA: The Feminist Show

I've been hosting Gloria: The Feminist Show on WUSC 90.5 fm (to listen go to www.wusc.sc.edu Mondays 2-4 pm except this monday the 10th)   Books discussed and Recommended on Feminist Show: ..:nam...
Posted by Gretchen on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:26:00 PST

Robin Morgan and Myself on Hillary

 My feelings towards Hillary have grown warmer. I know my leftist friends with think I sold out. At this point, I think the most radical thing I could do is not to vote Green Party or not vo...
Posted by Gretchen on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:43:00 PST

My year in Books

  I have been a passionate reader since age 9. Too passionate! If one saw the amount of books in my house they'd know that I like to read -- but if they counted all the books I've borrowed, lost,...
Posted by Gretchen on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:42:00 PST

Best of 2007 so far Part I: Films

I am a complete sucker for year end best of lists -- especially regarding film. This year has been for me, the most alienating year from the critics. I think the violent, misgony of the fan boy Quenti...
Posted by Gretchen on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:21:00 PST